Suicide in Anthrax Attacks case has conspiracists bursting

In a story that will receive much coverage but will be instantly forgotten the next time George W. McBush says that there have been no terrorist attacks since 9/11, Bruce E. Ivins, who was to be indicted on charges stemming from the 2001 anthrax attacks, killed himself by overdosing on Tylenol with codeine.

Anthrax scientist commits suicide as FBI closes in

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.S. biodefense researcher whose brother says was being aggressively pursued by the FBI in connection with a series of anthrax mailings after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks apparently committed suicide.

Criminal charges were about to be filed against Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who died Tuesday at Frederick Memorial Hospital in Maryland of an apparent overdose of prescription Tylenol mixed with codeine, the Los Angeles Times reported in Friday’s editions.

Ivins, who had worked for the past 18 years at the government’s biodefense labs at Fort Detrick, Md., had been told about the impending prosecution, the newspaper said.

The Maryland laboratory has been at the center of the FBI’s investigation of the anthrax attacks, which killed five people.

“We are not at this time making any official statements or comments regarding this situation,” Debbie Weierman, a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Washington field office, which is investigating the anthrax attacks, said Friday. “When we are able to give out any pertinent information we will certainly let the public and the media know.”

The sound you hear is the heads of five million conspiracists simultaneously exploding.

–WKW

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